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Helena Dea Bala immigrated to the United States at the age of twelve. To make ends meet during those difficult first years, she helped her mother, a former family medicine doctor, clean houses on the weekends.
Unhappy with her day job, she deferred her student loans, applied for a credit card, and gave herself one year to just listen. Five years in, she now does Craigslist Confessional full time.
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Learn more at CraigslistConfessional. Enhance your purchase. Helena Dea Bala was an exhausted and isolated DC lobbyist, suffocating under the weight of her student loan debt, when she decided to split her lunch with a man who often panhandled near her office.
They chatted effortlessly as they ate; there were no half-truths or white lies, and no fear of judgment. Helena felt connected and unburdened in a way she hadn't in years. Inspired, she posted an ad on Craigslist promising to listen, anonymously and for free, to whatever the speaker felt he or she couldn't tell anyone else.
s from people desperate to connect flooded her inbox, and she listened. Within months, Helena quit her job, deferred her loans, and dove into listening full time. The forty first-person confessions in this book are vivid, intimate, and real; they range from devastating traumas, to lost loves, to reflections on hard choices.
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Some s are quotidian, like that of one increasingly estranged husband: "I want to feel that we're not just roommates--that we're not just waiting for the kids to grow up so that we can move on. .
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Review "A 21st century Studs Terkel, Bala shows that documenting ordinary people's lives is nothing short of extraordinary. These heart rending stories are of desire and deception, love and loss, and finding connection in unexpected places. A treasury of unsentimental, authentic hope. Bala deftly captures these diverse voices--some gloomy, others hopeful--resulting in lively, empathetic biographical tableaux A book that focuses appealingly on the visceral complexities of our private lives. Each tragedy or triumph is unique, but the intensity of feeling is not.
She helps them share the secrets that have lurked in their lives, waiting to be released. Helena Dea Bala immigrated to the United States as .
To make ends meet during those difficult first years, she helped her mother clean houses on the weekends. After her day job left her feeling disconnected and unfulfilled, she deferred her student loans, applied for a credit card, and gave herself one year--one year to just listen. Find out more at CraigslistConfessional.
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Please try again later. I would not recommend to read this book if you need to be uplifted and left more hopeful about our society. I would recommend this book if you often ponder "why me", thinking that you are the only one having a hard time in life.
Also recommended to those wondering whether they could do anything to improve their situation, to give them some inspiration. Most stories are heartbreaking, opening a window into the bleak state of affairs in the US. There really should be trigger warnings somewhere TW: sexual assault and rape, child abuse, self-harm and suicide, eating disorder, abortion, drug use, PTSD, abusive relationship and violence.
The book reminds us that there is more to people than what they let us see, that we all just seek love and understanding, and that the world could be a better place if we were kinder to one another - leaving a faint glimmer of hope. Beautifully written. See all reviews.
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